Annoying thing at work today. I've been working on this irritating personnel issue for several days, lots of back and forth without any clear resolution. My boss and I went to our unit's deputy director and I talked through it, she understood, and all seemed well. Then we got called in out of the blue to explain it to our director. Not a big deal normally, he is laid back and a nice guy. As we're walking towards his office my boss rattles off, "OK, frame the issue like this...blah blah blah."

We got in there and I sort of froze up. I remembered some of what he said, but I fumbled a bit. Definitely recovered, and gave what was definitely a good and thorough briefing on the topic, but afterwards my boss pulled me aside and said, "Listen, if I give you specific direction like that, please follow it, etc."

I thought I did. Which was pretty good for you springing it on me 30 seconds before I had to begin talking. Just one of those situations that isn't a big deal or problem, but bothers me.

Annoying thing at work today. I've been working on this irritating personnel issue for several days, lots of back and forth without any clear resolution. My boss and I went to our unit's deputy director and I talked through it, she understood, and all seemed well. Then we got called in out of the blue to explain it to our director. Not a big deal normally, he is laid back and a nice guy. As we're walking towards his office my boss rattles off, "OK, frame the issue like this...blah blah blah."

We got in there and I sort of froze up. I remembered some of what he said, but I fumbled a bit. Definitely recovered, and gave what was definitely a good and thorough briefing on the topic, but afterwards my boss pulled me aside and said, "Listen, if I give you specific direction like that, please follow it, etc."

I thought I did. Which was pretty good for you springing it on me 30 seconds before I had to begin talking. Just one of those situations that isn't a big deal or problem, but bothers me.

Government work is so foreign to me. If I read this right you talked this through with your boss's boss, then you had to explain this to your boss's, boss's, boss? WTF?

I'm genuinely scared for when the next generation hits the work force.

On a start up related note, I have 31 year old cousin who has never held a proper job and is still in "school", who wants to self employed, what does he want to do you ask, not have a boss, thats his goal/plan, he doesn't know in what field etc.

As a self employed I can honestly say, the saying "You never get tired of working for yourself" is a blatant lie.

my wife's got a 24 yo niece that's as irritating. she works for her dad, and I use the term "work" loosely here, and there was this one time we were having dinner and she's been ranting about "work" and saying she's a good catch and she'll just find a rich guy to marry and so she doesn't have to work anymore and just spend her rich husband's money... I'm surprised her mom who was there in front of her, and who had to stop school and work when her father died when she was 18 or 19, didn't slap her kid silly... oh and she is not a "good catch" at all.

+++++

wanna join this mountain bike race, but it falls on a workday. and it'll happen after my vacation next week. dammit.

I'm working from home, waiting for the cable guy to come and fix my internet (which is intermittently very slow). Hopefully he comes during the first half of his damned allotted time, but he will probably show up an hour later.

Although honestly, I have been impressed with the service I get from RCN vs comcast. Their cable TV/dvr stuff might not be fancy, but I only use them for internet so that doesn't matter. Ever time I call them, it seems like I am immediately talking to someone higher up on the support chain. When I called them the other night, they didn't do the "we'd like you to restart your computer and powercycle your modem", but rather she immediately started with "I'm running a traceroute to your modem and it looks like you are getting a lot of packet loss..."

Did some more diagnostics and decided she had to send a tech out (and none of the comcast "if the tech gets there and it turns out to be your fault, that will be a $50 charge")